Marvel Comics and Marvel Voices: Pride #1 Spoilers follows.
Hellfire Club Stealth Tie-In Plus The Debut Of X-Men’s Somnus!
The book has several more variant covers on top of the above featuring Somnus.
Plus the main cover.
The book also includes a guide to other pride variant covers across Marvel titles this month.
Plus a few pin-ups.
There’s a look at Marvel’s historical pride moments.
In addition to that bibliography, Marvel tells that story through its opening short story as well.
At close to the end of the book we also get a full reprint of 1992’s Alpha Flight #106, a series that was spun out from Uncanny X-Men, where the character of Northstar came out.
Here’s a table of contents for the issue including the creative teams.
Like with the stealth debut of Children of the Atom in Marvel Voice #1 this book has a story that is a genuine tie-in to the Hellfire Club storyline across the X-Men line yet not in the Hellfire Gala checklist.
Hellfire Gala ends next week and here is Marvel Voice: Pride #1’s Hellfire Gala tie-in short story.
This one-shot also includes a short story debuting Somnus which is not a stealth debut as it has been hyped by Marvel.
The book also features of a story about one-time Spider-man girlfriend Black Cat, who was recently firmly established as bi-sexual, in a short story that has a thread that continues on when a Black Cat series returns on shelves involving Jessie Drake a mutant who was revealed to be trans in 1994’s Marvel Comics Presents #151.
Marvel ends the August 11, 2021’s Marvel Voices: Identity #1 one-shot plus upcoming series with LGBTQ2+ representation including the July 7, 2021’s X-Men #1 series kick-off.
The Pulse:
Inclusion and representation are important and the kind of books continue the history of that. I won’t give this book a rating as I feel it’s importance outweighs any numeric grade. It had some solid stories and some solid art teams telling stories that will make some readers proud. It was interesting there were so many mutant stories in this issues; not that surprising since its debut in 1963 was all about inclusion of those that were different from then accepted “main stream” (I use that term very loosely as being different should be main stream in a diverse and inclusive society). This ally wishes all LGTBQ2+ readers a Happy Pride month.
